Green Space
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Rad wins Mayor’s Award in Excellence and Innovation
HALIFAX – For the 3rd annual Mayor’s Award for Excellence & Innovation in Planning competition, eligible post-secondary students living in the...
By Hugh Pouliot -
A Greenbelt for Halifax?
HALIFAX – “What kind of community do you want to live in? What do you want Halifax to look like?” Jen Powley asked these questions to a packed...
By Natascia Lypny -
Japanese earthquakes – a century of urban devastation
This article was originally published on Spacing Ottawa. The harrowing images coming to us from across the Pacific are heightening the sense of dread felt...
By Evan Thornton -
Events Guide: Public Session, Capital Health Urban Farm project
HALIFAX – Once Queen Elizabeth High School is demolished, the land is to be used in the interim as an urban farm – a novel use of the land for...
By Abad Khan -
Events Guide: Imagine
HALIFAX – In 2005, Halifax’s north end collective consciousness came together to sprout Imagine Bloomfield in an effort to renew and preserve...
By Crystal Melville -
*Cancelled* – Events Guide: Clear the trash Halifax
HALIFAX – Tonight, Halifax Regional Council will be hosting a public hearing on proposed amendments to By-Law 600, regarding HRM’s Waste...
By Abad Khan -
Canada Games Skating Oval Grand Opening!
This just in: The opening of the Canada Games Oval has been POSTPONED due to the unseasonably warm weather! Plans to open the week of Dec 19th… stay...
By Emma Feltes -
Sharing Ideas to Transform Vacant Site into Urban Gardens… and more
HALIFAX – Once declared by Shakespeare, “What is the city but the people?” suggests he may have been as successful an urban planner as...
By Rachel Caroline Derrah -
Events Guide: Exploring ways to grow
HALIFAX – “There’s a reason why I love this town” croons hometown hero Joel Plaskett. At tonight’s presentation, those...
By Emma Feltes -
[Re]Presenting Halifax: Vacan[t]c[it]y
The [Re]Presenting Halifax series revisits historical and contemporary maps, diagrams and other interpretive readings of the Halifax region. See my first...
By Matt Neville -
Farm Friday: Spryfield Urban Farm Museum
HALIFAX – I’m peddling hard, snaking my way through the nonstop slew of traffic on Spryfield’s Herring Cove Rd. I gag on dust and...
By Lizzy Hill -
Events Guide: Harvest Fair
HALIFAX – When the weather starts to turn and the long pants start coming out life can feel a little unfair. “Why me?” you might ask...
By Veronica Simmonds